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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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Woman
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World
Geisha

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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.
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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]
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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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